On one hand, I know responding to an obvious troll is pointless because you are making stretched conclusions from cherry picked examples. On the other hand, having your garbage on the first page without pointing out the error is a peeve for me.

You don't average 100k isk per game. You have games that get over 100k isk, but no one is averaging that much, even players much better than you or I. Furthermore, even at 100k isk average, it is about 10 rounds for a top fit tier 1 tank. If you shop by price instead of raw performance, yes that price may go down. But if you're in that deep, best to commit the extra 20%.

Furthermore you point out the obvious, tanks are not strong enough to justify their prices. If they can "easily be killed" by a single player, then they are a joke. I'm guessing you use militia gear all the time, because that is the only way you would have >5M isk at the moment. Tha't hardly rolling in ISK when that used to take 5-10 games max.

And finally, the only reason I am broke is disconnects. Plain and simple 80% of all ISK I've earned this build has been lost to disconnects. Another 10% were barrel-rolling in vipers. And the last 10% were non-militia fits to other players.

I disagree. I've fired off three volleys that hit with the militia swarm and didn't even bring a tank's shields down by half. Yes, I was running militia because I was just getting killed over and over, getting off one volley if I was lucky before getting mowed down no matter how many allies I had nearby (firing a swarm makes you a very obvious target). But with the best swarm launcher you're getting a 50% bonus over the militia swarm, plus whatever you can get with light weapon upgrades. Mathematically, if I'd been using a top-of-the-line swarm launcher (the swarm launcher skill doesn't improve damage anyway), maybe with luck I'd have brought the shields down and dented the armor. Still nowhere near enough to kill the tank. And firing off three locked volleys is really good. It's rare you'll get off more than two if your opponents have any kind of skill or organization--either you'll get shot down or your target will move out of range.

I don't think the answer is more expensive tanks, I think the answer is more effective AV. The reason so many AV people run militia is because they know it's a suicide mission to distract the tank and not actually a bid to destroy it.

I know there's some reasonable doubt about this, so last night before bed I put together a build with the highest-grade equipment I could get and AV grenades to boot. Next time I encounter one of these tanks I'm going to pour out all the hurt I can and then make a final decision whether the balance is off. Looking at the math, though, it seems unlikely to be effective.

Skill up or shut up.

And I've spent less than 2 mil on skilling into AV and have just as much fun spreading the ashes of lol tanks everywhere.

Wait until a few more people are skilling into AV, then try to keep telling us tanks are OP.

Sha karn, i'm tired of being the only one on the map trying to kill you in your tank with my militia heavy and standard forge gun or my militia Soma while your buddy drives along with his tank and shoots me in the back/side/front. but i love when i get a backshot on you with my shotgun =D

biggest issues here are lack of teamwork to cover your AV teammates, everybody is minding his own business trying to kill that guy in front of you while you have a tank decimating your team all around you
the fact that trying to take down a gunnlogi with the aforementioned fitting is pointless. i mean i landed like 4 or 5 shots on you or another tank and not even bringing down it to half shield on several ocasions is not really encouraging to skill for AV.

and somas and sicas are a joke compared to standard tanks cost effective wise
i would like to see them drop in price so it can be fielded a bit more often to respond to a mutliple standard enemy tank invasion

I've never seen you period and i get similar isk in a militia av fit

4 full hits of a milita swarm launcher kill militia HAV

looks pretty good balanced to me